STRAUS, Oscar S: Memorial Fountain at the Ronald Reagan Bldg in Washington, D.C.by Adolph Alexander Weinman (click name for more of that artist's work)located in James M. Goode's Federal Triangle area (click link for more in that area)

Oscar Solomon Straus (December 23, 1850 – May 3, 1926) was United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909. Straus was the first Jew to serve as a Presidential Cabinet Secretary. He left the Commerce Department in 1909 when William Howard Taft became president and became U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire until 1910. In 1912, he ran unsuccessfully for Governor of New York. Source: Wikipedia

This monument was erected buy public subscription in accordance with the joint resolutionof Congress of December 16 1927 signed by President Coolidge Marge 2 1929 in memory of Oscar S. Straus (1850-1926)Author: "Origin of Republic Form of Government" 1885 "Roger Williams - Pioneer of Religious Liberty" 1894 "Under Four Administrations" 1922Diplomat: Minister to Turkey 1887-1888, 1898-1900 Ambassador to Turkey 1909 - 1910

Oscar S Straus Memorial FountainEggers & Higgins, ArchitectsAdolph Weinman, SculptorLiberty of Worship and The Voice of ReasonDedicated October 26, 1947 by President Harry S. TrumanDisassembled and placed in storage in 1991 for the construction of the Ronald Reagan Buildingand International Trade Center. Relocated, conserved and reinstalled with all original materials,except for the replacement of round river rock paving on the upper terrace with square setts ofPolychrome graniteRededicated October 26, 1998